Christine Restall
Art Quilts and Textiles
Christine Restall
Art Quilts and Textiles
EXHIBITIONS
Recent Exhibitions include:
With Art Textiles – Made in Britain, in ‘Concealed’, at Festival of Quilts, August 2016, Forgemill Gallery, Redditch, September-November 2016 and Minerva Gallery, Llanidloes, May 2017
With By Design – ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ at Lymington Arts Festival July 2016 and Fashion, Embroidery and Stitch (ICHF), March 2017
With Grosvenor Shows Ltd, ‘Natural Expressions’, a solo exhibition within Malvern Autumn Quilt Festival, 2014, and other venues through Spring 2015
With Art Textiles – Made in Britain, in ‘Identity’ at Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham, August 2014 and at Minerva Gallery, Llanidloes, March 2015
With By Design – ‘Marginal – on the Edge’ at Festival of Stitch (ICHF), NEC Birmingham, 2014, ExpoVeldhoven, Holland, 2014, Romsey Abbey, 2015 and Flying Geese Gallery, Dorset, 2015
In juried exhibition ‘Quilts of Great Britain’ at the Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival, Ontario, Canada, May 2014
At the 20th Carrefour du Patchwork, Ste Marie-aux-Mines, France, in invited exhibition ‘The European Patchwork Carrefour and its Guest Artists since 1994, September 2014
With By Design – ‘Structured’, at Quilt Museum, York, ExpoHaarlemmermeer, Holland, Romsey Abbey and Quilts at the Vinyard, Melbury, Dorset, 2013-15
Previous Exhibitions:
2012-2013
The 5th European Triennial - Textil Museum Max Berk, Heidelberg, and other venues, including Festival of Quilts 2013.
2011-12
The View from Here, with ColourFX Textile Art, The Framers’ Gallery, London WC1, November 2011; Cowslip Workshops, Cornwall, January 2012; Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury, September 22 - December 15 2012.
Structured, with By Design, launched at Quilt Museum York, Autumn 2011, and European Quilt Festival, Netherlands, January 2012, and other venues.
Red Hot, with By Design, launched at Festival of Quilts 2011, and Lymington Arts Festival, June 2012.
Whatever Floats Your Boat..., with Thames Valley Contemporary Quilts, Slough Museum, June 2012, and National Needlework Archive, Newbury, September-October 2012.
By the Sea - with The Quilters’ Guild of Great Britain Region 3, at the Quilt Museum York, June - July.
acCENT! Art Quilts from the UK
at THE NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
March 16 to June 12
www.quiltmuseum.org/current-exhibits.html
2010-11
European Art Quilt VI, launched at the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, and other venues.
2009-10
4th European Quilt Triennial - Textil Museum Max Berk, Heidelberg, and other venues.
Passage Defined with By Design, The Knitting and Stitching Show Harrogate, October 2009, and other venues.
2009
St Marie-aux-Mines - September. Solo exhibition within Carrefour du Patchwork. 25 quilts on exhibition in St Louis Church. (See images in Gallery 5).
2008
Dreams and Visions - ColourFX exhibition, launched at Festival of Quilts 2008, then at Gallery Forty-Seven in London (showing again at Cowslip Workshops, Launceston, Cornwall in August 2009).